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if Sir Hierome and Worsly both, should happen to cumber the upper Bench, like Minos and Radamanth, upon my case; I should be terribly afraid of what so much conceited ignorance and intoxicating pride might bring upon mee. But I suppose no Revolution that can come; will advance that Multiloquious pair of Monti-Parturists above the name I now give them, and the place of Under-Speech-Makers to a Committee.

I say, what I have here written is but summary, and indeed but an Elenchus rerum aliquando probandarum in that greater defence which God willing I intend. This is but the flashing of my priming powder, I must ram other stuff with powder and shot, into the barrel of my said greater piece; or else I should not think my self secure: Although to defend my self from this Knight, (who like a St. George) thinks he can pierce any Dragon) no harder scales are needful, then what covers this discourse. I have already published three sheets, being a meer brief of proceedings between the Knight and my self till the 13th of July, that the world being amazed at the noise between

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